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Second Rate Chances Blog Tour & Giveaway!

February 28, 2013 by Jaime Leave a Comment

SECOND RATE CHANCES 
By: Holly Stephens
Publication Date:  January 11, 2013
Sam wakes up in the hospital expecting to find his girlfriend by his bedside. Instead, he finds a bleached-blond diva, claiming to be his fiancée, hovering over him. When he learns that he’s just woken up from a coma and has lost the last three years of his life, any semblance of stability he thought he had falls down around him. All he wants – all he needs – is Lil.


After countless visits with her shrink and too many sleepless nights waiting for the one man she loves to walk back through the door, Lil wants nothing more than to separate herself from the life she used to have. But the moment Sam smiles at her, Lil knows it’s going to take more than self-restraint to stay away.

Second-Rate Chances is about a young man fighting to regain his memory, and the one thing in his life that felt real. A modern-day Samson and Delilah, it’s a look at what it means to love and be loved, and to fight though it seems hopeless.

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About Holly:

People have often told me that I live in a fantasy world. Little did they know, I was building an empire of stories in my head to one day share.

I’m a mother first, a wife second, and a writer third. I’m so thankful to have been given this chance to get my stories out of my head and onto paper.

When I’m not writing, I sell plumbing (no I’m not kidding) and read romances that leave my heart a flutter. I know a ridiculous amount of pop culture information and can quote certain movies word for word. Music drives me to write and to also sing off key.

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Read an Excerpt of Second Rate Chances:

He strong-armed the door, keeping it open so she couldn’t totally shut him out.


“Please,” he pleaded. “Hear me out.”
“Hear you out?” she asked, trying her best to close the door. It proved futile since his six foot two; one hundred and ninety pound frame could easily out maneuver her five foot two, one hundred and ten pounds.
“Lil, please,” he said again. “I’m sorry. I had no right.”
She eased back from her linebacker stance to openly gape at him.
“You’re sorry?” she asked incredulously. “You come at me tonight like I was Hester Prynne. I wasn’t marked, Sam!” she yelled. “I was broken!”
Sam used her moment of weakness against the door to his advantage. He stepped in and without giving it a second thought he cupped her delicate face in his hands. He wanted to kiss her, feel her against his lips.
He moved closer, his forehead pressed against hers, his thumbs wiping away her tears. All Lil needed to do was give him a sign; any sign and he’d make a move.
Her hands gripped the lapels of his jacket pulling him closer. “Samson,” she whispered, her lips barely grazing his.
It was all the invitation he needed.
His lips moved over hers like they had done so many times before. It had killed him, in these last few days, to be so close to her yet so far away. He wanted to be able to kiss her whenever he wanted. And right now, with their lips pressed together, he wanted to kiss the hell out of her.
Her mouth was soft against his own. He took a risk and slipped his tongue out, parting her lips in a silent request to enter. She granted him the access he sought by allowing him to ease in his tongue.
Lil sighed against his mouth and he had to suppress a smile. Now wasn’t the time to get cocky about having her in his arms. Now was the time to relish the feeling because who knew when it would happen again.
He pulled away to catch his breath. He hated the disconnected feeling immediately. He pressed his forehead against her and closed his eyes. His thumbs traced over her cheekbones as he breathed in the alluring scent of the woman he would always love.
“I’m so sorry, Lil,” he whispered. “I hate this. I hate not knowing the past three years. I hate not knowing what I’ve done to us. But most of all, I hate knowing you aren’t mine anymore.”
Lil’s hands traveled up Sam’s coat until they were on either side of his face. Fresh tears rolled down her cheeks and he did what he could to brush them away.
She looked at him through brown eyes he could easily lose himself in.
“I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry.” He was on the verge of tears himself as he apologized again. He’d say he was sorry till he was blue in the face if that was what it took.

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